Re: yum-presto occasionally goes into eternal loop looking for deltas

2010-01-07 Thread James Antill
within the client side cache timeout. But I'm not sure how easy that is. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.26 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel

Re: ABRT considered painful

2010-01-03 Thread James Antill
it, just extract the package to /var/cache/abrt-di. ABRT doesn't remove it automatically, but it's a planned feature. Why do you do this? -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.26 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki

Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-17 Thread James Antill
at the moment (it just fails with an update error) but I'll work on something a little bit more user friendly. How do you plan on restarting firefox? Or you just planning to kill() and get the user to restart? -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http

Re: yum doesn't like installonly_limit=1?

2009-12-10 Thread James Antill
a bug? Yum version is yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch Maybe3 a better question is: What do you want to achieve by setting this value to 1? -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki

Re: rawhide and tagging requests

2009-12-10 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:16 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote: Yup, but this isn't createrepo crashing (the earlier one was): 2009-12-09 20:11:04 mash: createrepo: finished /mnt/koji/mash/rawhide-20091209/development/x86_64/os/ 2009-12-09 20:11:05

Re: rawhide and tagging requests

2009-12-10 Thread James Antill
will fail anyway? -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: yum doesn't like installonly_limit=1?

2009-12-10 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 20:45 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: On 12/10/09, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:00 +0530, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote: I changed the installonly_limit to 1 from the default value 3 in /etc/yum.conf, and yum blows up. # yum search

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread James Antill
want to support slower machines ... _you_ will have to do the work, you might get help from the community but just ranting on f-d-l Everyone should solve my problems is unlikely to actually help. IMO. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http

Re: Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

2009-12-04 Thread James Antill
attacks? -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-03 Thread James Antill
it or not in the relevant repodata when it gets promoted or demoted. One problem is that atm. when it moves from testing to updates, or rawhide to GA, it also gets resigned with a different key ... so the bits are not the same. Having the URL be the same will not be helpful until that changes. -- James

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread James Antill
is. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-25 Thread James Antill
repodata pointing to subsets. As Jesse said you could also use hardlinks/symlinks in the x86_64 repo. Or you could even create three repos. i386, x86_64 and i386-common (not that I think that will be better than the other two options). -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http

Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-24 Thread James Antill
being allowed to update/install apache related packages. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-24 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:27 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, James Antill wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:32 +, Colin Walters wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, James Morris jmor...@namei.org wrote: Possibly (it could simply be that an updated policy is weaker

Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-24 Thread James Antill
that this mindset is what lead to this problem initially). ¹ Noting that polkit force removed the remember auth option, for no particularly sane reason that I've seen ... so if that option turns out to be the best option, then role-based privileges has (at least currently) hurt security. -- James Antill

Re: [RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

2009-11-24 Thread James Antill
: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437914 RFE: Yum 32bit for installer? -- as 64bit uses twice as much memory ...on the upside IIRC notting tried the 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace for F11, and had a single line patch (to rpmUtils.arch) to make yum happy. -- James Antill - ja

Re: FC11 packages 'newer' than FC12

2009-11-19 Thread James Antill
change, probably worth a BZ against yum. downgrade also has problems ... of course this should really be the last time now, so adding any more hacks is going to be a low priority. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25

Re: FC11 packages 'newer' than FC12

2009-11-19 Thread James Antill
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:38 -0500, Stu Tomlinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 13:19, James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:03 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: [...] For example, 'yum update iw' does nothing; 'yum install iw' results in an error message

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread James Antill
to get their admin to do it. ² If /var is on a separate partition then spamming /var/tmp is a goood first step here. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-18 Thread James Antill
, it logs the user the API is running from there. But it doesn't set loginuid, so yum history, auditd, SELinux, etc. don't know. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.25 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki

Re: RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

2009-11-17 Thread James Antill
a big hammer, but just because its a bit of a blunt instrument doesn't mean we shouldn't take advantage of it. This implies that all you have is a hammer but you can already run yum history undo. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via

Re: RFC: Btrfs snapshots feature for F13

2009-11-17 Thread James Antill
to be exercises in randomly picking the features you think they really want, from what is desired. Yum history assumes you are happy with just #1 and/or #3. Snapshots assume you are happy to take a lot of collateral damage to get #5 and/or #7. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org http

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-18 Thread James Antill
of things they got from this place for testing of updates. I must meditate on this. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via packages. -- Les Mikesell -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-08 Thread James Antill
a month or two later. How would this be different from updates-testing? If you install yum-plugin-aliases it even has predefined aliases lsuT and upT to get the list of updates from testing, and update to them. bodhi has support for it etc. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-10-05 Thread James Antill
amounts of code and significant problems on the f-i side. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-30 Thread James Antill
use it? (remember this thread started because the Fedora QA group wants to use it). Maybe we should split the packaging guidelines into ones everyone has to follow and ones that are really anal and only unpopular packages have to follow. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread James Antill
the entire rpm (and thus. is over compressed data). ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the compression to something that works ... the minor savings in xz compression isn't worth as much as delta's. -- James

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread James Antill
that drpms on rawhide will still suck upto F12, but I could live with that :). I assume we don't do F11 = F12 drpms? On the other side of it, does anyone have any stats. on how much was saved by using Xz instead of bzip2? -- Ie. what we'd lose if we did a mass rebuild. -- James Antill ja

Re: how to determain those no longer required packages

2009-08-31 Thread James Antill
together what might have happened at #1 after the fact. ¹ It's also true that saving 1 cent of disk space isn't at the top of my list of things to do. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

2009-07-31 Thread James Antill
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 14:21 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 07/31/2009 01:12 AM, James Antill wrote: *sigh*, if you want to do some benchmarking of different package managers available in Fedora (zypp makes the 4th, if apt is working again) then feel free to actually do _a bunch of work_

Re: Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

2009-07-31 Thread James Antill
probably very hard to compare performance well because of the different design goals and features/etc. I'm not sure I'd say it's impossible though. -- James Antill - ja...@fedoraproject.org I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via packages. -- Les Mikesell -- fedora-devel-list

Re: Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

2009-07-30 Thread James Antill
it works in yum when that's the case, but I've never seen it in MM metalink responses. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Heads up, python-2.6.2 just built in rawhide

2009-07-30 Thread James Antill
still works as did gedit python plugins. For the impatient the koji build was: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1567632 -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

2009-07-30 Thread James Antill
feel free to not do so on f-d-l. Likewise with quick benchmarks like this (which amounts to the same thing, IMO). HTH. HAND. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-06-14 Thread James Antill
, but CD RW. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Too eager?

2009-06-09 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 14:55 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Jon Ciesla wrote: James Antill wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:37 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: Jonathan Dieter wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:17 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: I installed F-11 fedora-release* and did yum

Re: Too eager?

2009-06-09 Thread James Antill
#1 means you'll get all the other updates from updates-testing, #2 is more typing. -- James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list